Shuwaikh Power and Desalination
MSF/RO + power, 20.5 MIGD (92,000 m3/day) of distillation, plus a 30 MIGD (136,000 m3/day) seawater reverse osmosis plant in Kuwait.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Kuwait
- Location
- Kuwait City
- Coordinates
- 29.351, 47.940
- Technology
- MSF/RO + power
- Capacity
- 20.5 MIGD (92,000 m3/day) of distillation, plus a 30 MIGD (136,000 m3/day) seawater reverse osmosis plant
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Ministry of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy
- Contractor
- Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction (seawater RO plant, EPC)
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 2008
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 1982
Shuwaikh desalination station recorded as commissioned
- 2008
ministry awards Doosan the 136,000 m3/day Shuwaikh seawater reverse osmosis plant, the first large membrane plant in Kuwait
- 2010
completion scheduled for September
Sources
9 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Energy Recovery Inc press release filed with the SEC, Shuwaikh 36 MGD desalination plant awarded to Doosan (2008). ir.energyrecovery.com.
- 136,000 m3/day (36 million US gallons a day), MEW the client, Doosan on an EPC basis, completion scheduled September 2010, described as Kuwait's first large seawater reverse osmosis plant.
- Alfadhli and Alhashemi, Environmental Impact of Desalination Plant Saline Water on Kuwait Bay, Journal of Engineering Research and Application 9 (2), 2019. ijera.com.
- Table 1, citing MEW 2006, lists the installed distillation plants in MIGD and million m3/day.
- Frontiers in Environmental Science, A detailed perspective of water resource management in a dry and water scarce country: the case in Kuwait (2022). frontiersin.org.
- Table 2 gives eight coastal desalination plants with year, technology and capacity in m3/day.
- Frontiers dates the Shuwaikh site to 1982 and gives 220,000 m3/day for distillation and reverse osmosis combined, which matches the two figures added together.
- Oxford Business Group, Kuwait 2018 report, The government is working to improve water infrastructure and production capacity. oxfordbusinessgroup.com.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
Az Zour South and Shuwaikh RO plants at 30 MIGD each; two 60 MIGD RO plants at Doha.